TSA’s airport screening is a (dirty) joke. So we’d better fix it…

Airport Screening Follies
By WILLIAM JOHN COX

Google “TSA stupidity” and you will find that almost one-and-a-half million websites have something to say about the subject.

If the United States is to avoid another major terrorist attack on its air transportation system without placing greater restrictions on the civil liberties of air travelers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had better get smart.

Everyone who travels by air in the United States has a depressing story to tell about airport screening.

Media stories of a gravely ill 95-year-old grandmother forced to remove her adult diaper before being allowed on a plane and viral videos showing terrified children being intimately touched by TSA agents are more than depressing. They are a chilling commentary on the police state increasingly accepted by the American public in the name of security.

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